Wednesday, March 19, 2014

PIN CURLS

When I was a young girl I would take small strands of my hair and just curl it up like a snail and then put two bobby pins criss cross....those were pin curls.... When I woke up, I would take out all of the pin curls and my hair would be so curly. Didn't do that very often because it was hard to pin curl my long hair.

A few weeks ago my sister showed me her quilt (Beverly) she had made using the "Pin Curl" pattern by "Me and My Sisters Design". Beverly used Marblelicious fabrics and boy was it beautiful.

I kept thinking that my Samoan Fabrics would work up nicely with this pattern...and was I ever right!!!

18 comments:

Wow, Barb I just love these blocks. They would look great with some of my blue and white Asian fabrics too! I saw you title and immediately thought of my mother putting pin curls in my hair just as you described. Thanks for the memories!

I do remember pin curls and some type of pink roller thing that you rolled up you hair a push the two ends together and they made pin curls too. I love your quilt blocks the have a tropical feel to them.

ps - I too remember pinning my hair for curls. Difficult with long hair and even more so trying to sleep that way. I recall when they came out with pink foamie curlers how much easier it was to sleep and get curly hair the next morning.

You are so right....those are great blocks!!! I love those. I too remember doing my hair like that...but only once because it turned out like cork screws...LOL. My grandmother did that every night and I loved watching her.

I like the blocks a lot more than the memories I associate with pin curls or the metal curlers that my mother rolled my hair in before them we started using bobby pins. The white makes the Samoan fabric pop.